This just in: Google will soon have a cool new feature that will change Google's appearance based on the weather.

SAN FRANCISCO - Sprucing up its famously plain Web site, Google Inc. is offering a new option that plants its Internet search box in panoramic settings that change with the time of day and the outside weather.

The colorful graphics to be unveiled Tuesday represent the latest bit of pizzaz to be served up on Google's home page as the Mountain View-based company caters to the digerati who want to customize everything from their cell phones to their computers.With this change there will almost certainly be the option to have Google customised to be black.

The News of the World had an article suggesting that a revolutionary new way to play darts had been approved. It was a square darts board, and they had a pic of Phil Taylor with it saying how good it was.

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The sounds of the planet are to be linked to Google Earth to enable users to hear what a place sounds like, as well as what it used to sound like.

Bernie Krause has spent 40 years collecting the sounds, and his company Wild Sanctuary has accumulated over 3,500 hours of recordings, covering everything from the cracking of glaciers to midnight in the jungle.